"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The figures are interacting in an illusionistically expanded space.
- The figure can interact with ramps, a truck and a wall.
- This new consciousness is most explicit where two figures interact.
- Though the figures of the two inner scenes face each other, and interact by gaze and gesture, they are set in different backgrounds.
- In each, two elemental figures or parts of figures interact; a little man, for example, balances on the shoulders of a big, headless woman in "I Could Feel the Current Beneath My Feet" (Johnson).
- Historical figures such as Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis, Anthony Comstock, and J. Pierpont Morgan appear briefly in the novel and interact with the fictional characters.
- The two-dimensional figures interact seamlessly with three-dimensional computer-generated surroundings that are richly colored and loaded with intriguing gadgetry.
- By contrast, in "Venetian Pleasures" more than a dozen figures, actors and masqueraders vivaciously, even frantically, interact, their bodies forming a solid arabesque curve, like a garland of flowers.
- The grain and figure of the wood interact with the shape of the piece to make interesting visual and tactile effects.
- As the fiction takes place in the past, and historical figures interact with the plot, Callirhoe may be understood as the first historical novel; it was later imitated by Xenophon of Ephesus and Heliodorus of Emesa, among others.
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